Encouraging readings out of China and Europe served as a prelude to the Institute for Supply Management's latest manufacturing report, which showed new orders and employment picked up in July, as overall conditions contracted at a slower pace than in June.
Why would Prelude encourage the "lab talk" and not the "sex talk"?
As classes started last week -- the Prelude courses conducted by professors from the Borough of Manhattan Community College in Hunter classrooms -- teachers tried to be encouraging.
The last-minute offer of a stabilisation and association agreement, normally a prelude to membership talks, encouraged Serbian voters to back pro-European parties in the general election in May.
The coup mounted by General Augusto Pinochet and encouraged by the United States was the prelude to savage repression: at least 3,000 civilians were killed, and tens of thousands were tortured or exiled.It formed part of a regional pattern.
The awards are also designed to encourage international collaborations and are a "prelude" to more than €2 billion in funding earmarked for genomics-related research in the EC's new Sixth Framework funding program set to begin later this year, the commission said in a statement.
Rather, the West and its Arab allies should encouraged national reconciliation and serve as a prelude to the long road of reform.
As the old codes gave way, America's need for fresh heroes and new perspectives encouraged Hofstadter to rewrite its history as a prelude to moving its culture.
Influenced by that decade's liberties, and chastened by its excesses, they encouraged her to think of youthful sexual experimentation as a healthy prelude to a coupled life.
Fears that the French would invade Ireland as a prelude to invading the British mainland led ministers to encourage the creation of an Irish volunteer force some 40,000 strong.
There's an echo, perhaps, of Dante in Canto 27 of the Purgatorio, encouraged by Virgil to walk through fire as the necessary, cleansing prelude to attaining Paradise and reunion with Beatrice.
